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In the first eight weeks after emergence, the Polyphemus caterpillar exhibits extreme feeding behaviour, consuming a massive volume of plant material relative to its own size.
The double-crested cormorant's numbers decreased in the 1960s due to the effects of DDT. Once threatened by the pesticide, the bird has increased markedly in numbers in recent years.
Most flying birds carry air-filled bones to stay light. The common loon does the opposite, packing dense, largely solid bones that trade lift for the ability to dive tens of metres after fish.
Despite its hyena-family membership, the aardwolf hunts nothing larger than an insect. A single night's foraging can involve tens of thousands of individual harvester termites, gathered with a sticky tongue rather than a bite.
Banded archerfish fire water from their mouths to knock insects off leaves, and the jet accelerates after release so its tip strikes with more force than the mouth that launched it.
Hunted down to roughly 200 animals by the early 1900s, the Indian rhinoceros now numbers over 4,000, concentrated almost entirely in a small cluster of protected river-valley parks.
The Sunda pangolin's tongue can stretch far past its snout to probe insect nests, and its root sits deep in the chest cavity near the pelvis and last ribs rather than attaching to the jaw like most mammal tongues.
The white-bellied pangolin's prehensile tail can grow longer than its head and body combined, functioning as a fifth limb that lets it grip branches, hang, and forage for ants high in the forest canopy.